NAME:
Brina Faciane
SCHOOLS:
Salmen High, Pearl River High, Creekside, Riverside, Slidell Jr, St.Tammany Jr
CLASS:
Talented Music
School phone:
Pearl River 863.2591 Salmen 643.7359
Brina Bourliea Faciane graduated from Salmen High School in 1996 and started
the fall semester on a scholarship to LSU majoring in music performance. In
2000, she received a Bachelor’s of Music degree from LSU and in 2002, a
Master’s in Music from Arizona State University. Performing and teaching has
brought her all over the United States as well as Canada, Italy, and Cyprus.
She spent two years as a saxophone teaching assistant in Italy and worked
part-time teaching English as a second language. Ms.Brina is a professional
member of the Music Educators National Conference and the North American
Saxophone Alliance. She has been teaching Talented Music in St. Tammany since
2006 and also maintains an active studio of saxophone students.
Listen! Listen! Listen! Music, the universal language.
Why Teach Music? - Aurthor Unkown
Music is a science
It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full
score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume
changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of
time.
Music is mathematical
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which
must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is
certainly not English--but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses
symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and
universal language.
Music is history
Music usually reflects the environments and times of its creation, often
even
the country and or racial feeling.
Music is a physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek, and
facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic,
back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the
ear
hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all these things, but most
of all music is art
It allows a human being to take all these dry technically boring (but
difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing that
science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
That is Why We Teach Music!
Not because we expect you to major in music
Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life
Not so you can relax
Not so you can have fun
Not Because we expect you to major in music
BUT--so you will be human
So you will recognize beauty
So you will be sensitive
So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
So you will have something to cling to
So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good--in
short, more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless we know how to
live?
That is Why We Teach Music!
~Mrs. Brina
